Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-20
white Hat "Eua" Ending in Blows

white Hat ''Eun'' Ending ia Blows.
By en- uuwritten law, as immutable as
any ever promulgated by Meda or Persian,
it is forbidden TO wear white or straw hats
at any of the Exchanges after September
Is. Nowhere was this law IN ore RICHLY en- :
forced yesterday than at the Ptoduac Elk
change. Ga Wednesday notice Was post
ed up in the Exchange signed bg the Lord
High execuioner, and calling attention to
the law and the penalties 10 tie incurred -
all who violated it.
Evidently the law had 20 terrors for the
younger members Of the Exchange, for
many Of them Horo white ha!s upon the
floor and one member possessed sufficient
temerity to appear under straw hat. The
"boys" had lots of fun smashing tbe white
hats OH one another's heals and kicking
them about the floor like SC mnng footballs.
Franklin Woodruff, enc of the older men,
bers ofthe Exchange, appeared upon the floor
in The afternoon wearing 81 somewhat dila.
pidalcd white straw hat. Immediately he
was surrounded by iho young men who
hailed the appearances OF fresh victim with
hows OF slee.
There's days storage due OIL that hat,
shouted one of them, while another re-
marked that 1T was warm and musty."
Then bright young man in faultless black
Derby declared that sit was ont of condi
ton" and should be posted" Tho posting
process was about 10 proceed then and
there, when Col. Edward Hincken, eX presi
dent Of the Exchange, and one of the older
members oft the Exchange, advised the boys
not TO carry tho matter too far. All the at
tention paid 10 Col. Hincken's remark whs
to push one or another against him and Mr..
Woodruff at this point James E. Hanel,
young grain broker, appeared upon the
scene, ana saying that il WAS shame for
the Young fellows to treat the old men so,
dropped tho remark that if any Que ran into
him some one would get hurt. Somebody
did run into him aud somebody did get
hurt, but Mr.. Hamel was the victim. Charles
Power, son of w. II. Power, the grain
broker, was pushed violently against Mr..
Hamel HameI seized Power by the throat,
when Power struck him several blows on
the body Before Hamel could return the
blows the two were separated and the fun
was over for the day.
Elaborate preparations for conscientious en-
forccmont OF the law were made at Castle Garden.
Scuily The money changer, rugged up 4 line with
fish hook attached over one of tho raf.ers of the
dome snd quietly awaited Developments In q
short time Clerk Niglutsch walked unsuspectins-
" under the hook wearing last years white
tile at pronounced angle. sculiy lowered his
hook. gave his line q gentle tug, ana Mr.. Mig
Iutsch's ancient tile scared skyward, while the
look OF establishment which spread over its own
er's face made even the Italian immigrants grim
Five wearc.s Of white hats were thus reminded Of
the law When Commissioner Stephenson strollcd
into tho rOiunda wearing high and conspicuous
white tile, the hook snd tho line trembed with
cxultation at the prospect of encountering such
noble game, but the weight7 position occupied by
tho Commissioner exempted him from the provis-
ions of the law, ard the contrivarco had to DO
content with the white hat OF Detective Peter
Gordon, who sauntcred i'll behind the Commits
sioler-N Y. Tribune